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  Texas Trust Credit Union Strives to Hit $1 Billion

  By Peter Strozniak  |  September 10, 2012

  Sandwiched between the Gotham of the Lone Star State–Dallas and Fort Worth–stands the $753 million Texas Trust Credit Union, which recently launched an aggressive growth plan in one of the nation’s largest and most competitive marketplaces dominated by big banks.

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  Texas Trust Strives to Hit $1 Billion: Print Preview

  By Peter Strozniak  |  September 7, 2012

  From our next print edition, a look at how $753 million Texas Trust works to grow in one of the nation's most competitive markets.

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  Banks Are Quietly Offering Business Interest Checking

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  March 25, 2012

  It’s been nearly two years since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, which for the first time since the Great Depression allows interest to be paid on business checking accounts.

• Bank Defections Fueled by Fees

  March 11, 2012

  Consumer backlash against bank fees, coupled with poor service and unmet customer expectations, has fueled increases in defection rates among customers of large, regional and midsize banks, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Bank Customer Switching and Acquisition Study.

• Safety Lures More Consumers to CUs

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  March 4, 2012

  Back in 2009, voters’ views on the safety and soundness of credit unions and banks were nearly even.

• Bigger the Bank, the More Consumers Fleeing: J.D. Power Study

  By Andrew Corselli  |  February 27, 2012

  Acquisition of new customers by smaller banks and credit unions increased by 2.2 percentage points 2011, the study found.

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  Bank Transfer Day: CUs Preparing, Promoting

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 17, 2011

  If more people transfer their accounts to credit unions because of Bank Transfer Day. it could be a mixed blessing for some credit unions. However, that’s a problem many credit unions would be glad to worry about.

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  CUs Brace for Blog-Inspired Bank Transfer Day: Print Preview

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 14, 2011

  This article will be among the news, features, analysis and insight filling the pages of the next print edition of Credit Union Times.

• Bipartisan House Bill to Repeal Durbin Amendment to Be Introduced

  By David Morrison  |  October 12, 2011

  Utah Republican, New York Democrat say repeal "would restore balance" to the electronics payments system.

• Bank Transfer Day: L.A. Art Dealer Tells How it Started

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  October 11, 2011

  Kristen Christian says she wanted to get "a message out to young people about choices," and to her mom's contemporaries, too.